NEED to KNOW!!!! These Heroes!!!

[center:3ou9bnd7]Army Capt. Tom Harrison [/center:3ou9bnd7]
[center:3ou9bnd7]Retired Army Captain Receives War Medals 66 Years Late[/center:3ou9bnd7]
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Published November 13, 2011 | Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY – More than six decades after being freed from a Japanese prisoner of war camp, a Utah veteran was compelled to relive the horrors and triumphs of his World War II experience this month when he received a mysterious package containing seven military medals, including the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star.
The medals have become a source of pride for retired Army Capt. Tom Harrison, 93, since they arrived in a box with nothing more than a packing slip from a logistics center in Philadelphia on Nov. 4, which happened to be his 65th wedding anniversary. But they have also refreshed painful memories of the Bataan Death March, POW camps and the comrades he lost during the war or in the years since.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/13/army-captain-receives-war-medals-66-years-late/?test=faces#ixzz1dmfqLxpm

[center:2l0swkyw]Christopher P Lyons [/center:2l0swkyw]
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[center:2l0swkyw]Shelby, Ohio
July 28, 2005
Age - 24 Military - Marine Rank - L/Cpl Unit/Location - 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division
Columbus, Ohio[/center:2l0swkyw]

Killed when his unit came under attack by enemy small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades while conducting combat operations in Cykla, Iraq.



http://militarytimes.com/valor/marine-lance-cpl-christopher-p-lyons/1003769
http://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=christopher-p-lyons&pid=14738394

[center:1n1wfkft]William E Wilfong [/center:1n1wfkft]
[center:1n1wfkft] [/center:1n1wfkft]Albany, Oregon
[center:1n1wfkft]August 9, 2011
Age -86 Military - Navy Rank -? Unit/Location - ?[/center:1n1wfkft]

http://www.wwiiwarheroes.org/wilfong.htm
http://democratherald.com/news/local/obituaries/william-e-wilfong/article_a4a131e4-c39e-11e0-8978-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story

[center:3cu8e10f]Timothy Lee Bidiman [/center:3cu8e10f]
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[center:3cu8e10f]Hillsboro, Oregon
January 21, 2009
Age - 59 Military - Marine Rank - ? Unit/Location - Coast Guard[/center:3cu8e10f]

Tim served in the Marine Corps for nearly eight years, mustering out in 1976. He was a Forward Observer in Vietnam in about 1970. After leaving the Corps, he joined the Coast Guard Reserve, serving for 20 years (drilling at MSO Portland, OR, on Swan Island) and retiring from the military in 1996. He was also a Multnomah County Deputy Sheriff
http://www.vietnamwarheroes.org/bidiman.htm

[center:j63wm159]Nicholas James Thomas [/center:j63wm159]
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[center:j63wm159]Portland, Oregon
August 11, 2005
Age - 21 Military - Army Rank - Sgt. Unit/Location - Oregon National Guard[/center:j63wm159]
Served 2 tours in Iraq. Died of AcuteLymphoblast Leukema complications.
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http://www.iraqwarheroes.org/thomasn.htm

[center:38ihc6ym]Omar Aceves [/center:38ihc6ym]
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[center:38ihc6ym]El Paso, Texas
January 12, 2011
Age - 30 Military - Army Rank - Sgt.
Unit/Location - 7th Engineer Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, 10th Mountain Division
Fort Drum, New York[/center:38ihc6ym]
Killed in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device.
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http://www.iraqwarheroes.org/2011/aceves.htm

Also at: http://freedomremembered.com/index.php/sgt-omar-aceves/

[center:i1kenixk]Charles E Matheny IV [/center:i1kenixk]
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[center:i1kenixk]Stanwood, Washington
February 18, 2006
Age - 23 Military - Army Rank - Sgt.
Unit/Location - 704th Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
Fort Hood, Texas[/center:i1kenixk]

Killed in Baghdad, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.
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'I'm Better And You're Better Because Charlie Was Born'
February 27, 2006
By Keith Eldridge
http://www.iraqwarheroes.org/matheny.htm

[center:kwme9xg8]Attack on Pearl Harbor [/center:kwme9xg8][center:kwme9xg8] [/center:kwme9xg8]
[center:kwme9xg8]Photograph from a Japanese plane of Battleship Row at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on the USS Oklahoma. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over the USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.[/center:kwme9xg8]
The attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI[6][7] by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning)[8] and the Battle of Pearl Harbor[9]) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan). The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.

Read more about the attack at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

[center:kwme9xg8]National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day [/center:kwme9xg8]
Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Pearl_Harbor_Remembrance_Day

http://www.worldwariihistory.info/Medal-of-Honor/Pearl-Harbor.html
[center:kwme9xg8]Congressional Medal of Honor
Heroes of Pearl Harbor [/center:kwme9xg8]
[center:kwme9xg8]MERVYN SHARP BENNION [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]JOHN WILLIAM FINN [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]FRANCIS C. FLAHERTY [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]SAMUEL GLENN FUQUA [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]EDWIN JOSEPH HILL [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]HERBERT CHARPOIT JONES [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]ISAAC CAMPBELL KIDD [/center:kwme9xg8] [center:kwme9xg8] [/center:kwme9xg8]

[center:kwme9xg8]JACKSON CHARLES PHARRIS [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]THOMAS JAMES REEVES [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]DONALD KIRBY ROSS [/center:kwme9xg8]
[center:kwme9xg8]Entered service at: Denver, Colorado. [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]ROBERT R. SCOTT [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]PETER TOMICH [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]FRANKLIN VAN VALKENBURGH [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]JAMES RICHARD WARD [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]CASSIN YOUNG [/center:kwme9xg8]
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[center:kwme9xg8]Thank You to the other 2,000+ killed & 1,200+ wounded [/center:kwme9xg8]
[center:kwme9xg8]Let's not for get the innocent either;
Civilian casualties:
57 killed
35 wounded[/center:kwme9xg8]
ALL Pictures from: Wikipedia

[center:3boo2pbg]Mickey E Zaun [/center:3boo2pbg]
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[center:3boo2pbg]Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
January 28, 2005
Age - 27 Military - Army Rank - Sgt 1st. Class Unit/Location - U.S. Army Special Operations Command
Fort Bragg, North Carolina[/center:3boo2pbg]
Died in Mosul, Iraq, from injuries sustained in a collision between two armored vehicles.

http://www.iraqwarheroes.org/zaun.htm
http://militarytimes.com/valor/army-sgt-1st-class-mickey-e-zaun/632842

[center:3d6l97d5]Timothy C Alioth [/center:3d6l97d5]
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[center:3d6l97d5]Portland, Oregon
February 6, 2009
Age - 58 Military - Marine Rank - Cpl Unit/Location - N/A[/center:3d6l97d5]

Tim served from 1967 though 1973, as a corporal E-4 combat Marine in the I Corps area in the Third Recon along the DMZ in Viet Nam.



Read his story at: http://www.vietnamwarheroes.org/alioth.htm